Today’s found: Cassini and Saturn

I would suggest stopping what you’re doing and viewing these photos that the satellite Cassini took of Saturn and her rings. They are astounding. I want to travel to space more than anything.

I only spent 5 minutes on this one.

Original on top, mine on bottom.

Source from Boston.com’s Big Picture
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Time Bubble

I wonder if his voice sounds the same outside of microgravity

You may also be interested in a water droplet in super-slow-mo.

Embedding was disabled on that video so instead you can watch what it made me think of, the 3-2-1 Contact Intro:

The Milky Way

We are a small dot on a single tendril dancing around the milky way maypole. Gravity flattens it all to a disk that, if seen on a clear night, looks like this:

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

Why do we call it the Milky Way? Thank Chaucer.

"See yonder, lo, the Galaxyë
Which men clepeth the Milky Wey,
For hit is whyt." (For it is white, thanks Sam)

—Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer The House of Fame, c. 1380.